Trans(per)forming Nina Arsenault : an unreasonable body of work / edited by Judith Rudakoff.

Contributor(s):

Rudakoff, Judith D, 1953-

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Bristol : Intellect, 2012.Description: vii, 232 p., [32] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), col. ports. ; 23 cmISBN:

9781841505718 (pbk.)
1841505714 (pbk.)

Contained works:

Arsenault, Nina. Silicone diaries

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

702.812 ARS

Summary: After sixty surgeries at a cost of almost 200,000 to feminize and beautify her originally male body, transgendered Canadian artist Nina Arsenault has created a body of work emanating from her experiences that includes photographs, videos disseminated online, a website, a blog, several social networking presentation sites, stage plays, print media writing, and performance of the body in both celebrity appearances and daily public life--provided by publisher.

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Standard Loan	LSAD Library Main Collection	702.812 ARS (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		39002100465583

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Transgendered playwright, performer, columnist, and sex worker Nina Arsenault has undergone more than sixty plastic surgeries in pursuit of a feminine beauty ideal. In TRANS(per)FORMING Nina Arsenault , Judith Rudakoff brings together a diverse group of contributors, including artists, scholars, and Arsenault herself to offer an exploration of beauty, image, and the notion of queerness through the lens of Arsenault's highly personal brand of performance art.Illustrated throughout with photographs of the artist's transformation over the years and demonstrating her diversity of personae, this volume contributes to a deepening of our understanding of what it means to be a woman and what it means to be beautiful. Also included in this volume is the full script of Arsenault's critically acclaimed stage play, The Silicone Diaries.

Includes: The silicone diaries, by Nina Arsenault.

Includes bibliographical references.

After sixty surgeries at a cost of almost 200,000 to feminize and beautify her originally male body, transgendered Canadian artist Nina Arsenault has created a body of work emanating from her experiences that includes photographs, videos disseminated online, a website, a blog, several social networking presentation sites, stage plays, print media writing, and performance of the body in both celebrity appearances and daily public life--provided by publisher.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

Acknowledgements (p. vii)
Introduction (p. 1)
Part I The Texts (p. 15)
Chapter 1 Affirming Identity with Your Friendly Neighbourhood Cyborg (p. 17)
Chapter 2 Unreal Beauty: Identification and Embodiment in Nina Arsenault's "Self-Portraits" (p. 27)
Chapter 3 Daughter of the Air: Three Acting Sessions and Nina Arsenault's Imaginary Body (p. 43)
Chapter 4 Nina, Amber and the Evolution of a Commodified Sexual Being (p. 55)
Chapter 5 Sexed Life is a Cabaret: The Body Politics of Nina Arsenault's The Silicone Diaries (p. 67)
Chapter 6 Chopping at the Sexy Bits: [Trans]cending the Body with Surgical Conundrums (p. 85)
Chapter 7 Nina Arsenault: Fast Feminist Object a (p. 93)
Chapter 8 The Artist as Complication: Nina Arsenault and the Morality of Beauty (p. 109)
Chapter 9 Landscape with Yukon and Unnatural Beauty (p. 117)
Chapter 10 Performing the Prosthetics of Femininity: Nina Arsenault's Transsexual Body as a Living Art Object (p. 135)
Chapter 11 Compelling Honesty: Searching for Authenticity in the Voice of Nina Arsenault (p. 149)
Chapter 12 Live in Your Blood: A Fragmentary Response to Nina Arsenault's Holy Theatre and Spiritual Gift (p. 165)
Chapter 13 St. Nina and the Abstract Machine: Aesthetics, Ontology, Immanence (p. 173)
Part II The Silicone Diaries (p. 191)
Director's Note (p. 193)
The Silicone Diaries (p. 197)
Part III The Photographs (p. 229)
Image Credits (p. 233)

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Nina Arsenault is a transgendered, cross-disciplinary artist who has worked in theatre, television, film, video art, photography, and print. Her life and her transition from male to female have been the subject of numerous Canadian and international documentary television programs, radio interviews, and print articles. In 2005, she took control of her voice and image to write her T-Girl column in Toronto's fab Magazine, a series of autobiographical stories which she later adapted into her-acclaimed one woman play. The Silicone Diaries, which has been performed across Canada. Arsenault is also engaged in the practice of photographing her body, an artistic process she has undertaken at all points of her physical metamorphosis.
Judith Rudakoff has worked as a dramaturg with emerging and established playwrights throughout Canada and in Cuba, Denmark, South Africa, England and the United States. Her work as dramaturg for The Silicone Diaries continues her long association with Nina Arsenault. Rudakoff is the co-editor (with Lynn M. Thomson) of Between the Lines: The Process of Dramaturgy (2002). She is a member of the Playwrights Guild of Canada, the Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas, and is a Professor at York University in Toronto, Canada where she teaches theatre.